Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (always the 3rd Wednesday of May):
Honor fallen cyclists and raise awareness in this annual procession past Chicago Ghost Bikes.
Gather at 6pm, Depart at 6:30pm
Eternal Flame in Daley Plaza
Website: http://www.rideofsilence.org/chicago/
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Join the annual Ride of Silence, an organized annual cycling procession honoring those that have been injured or killed. The goal is to raise awareness that we are here, and to ask that we all share the road.
Save the date for the 2017 Chicago Ride Of Silence - May 17, 2017
Our route typically passes several Ghost Bikes, which are powerful memorials to fallen cyclists created by painting a bicycle white and placing it at or near the site of the cyclist’s death.
DATE: May 17, 2017 (always the 3rd Wednesday of May)
TIME: Gather at 6:00 pm; Depart at 6:30pm
WHERE: Hundreds of locations world wide; Eternal Flame (Daley Plaza) in Chicago
One day. One Time. World wide.
Communities throughout Chicagoland participate in the Ride of Silence including: Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Elk Grove Village, Evanston, Joliet, Oak Park and Peoria.
Wherever you ride, we ride in unity.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/RideofSilenceChicago
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Ride reports are already streaming in. At best - I got a count of 126 riders in Chicago.... and just found out Peoria had 136.
Peoria outdid Chicago in #s? wow!
Lisa Fielding of WBBM 780 came to the start of the ROS tonight to report:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/05/18/fallen-bikers-honored-in-6th...
I will be there but I'll be hustling to get there by 7.
I haven't seen much publicity for the ride beyond this group (typically groups are read only by a very small number of people) so coupled with the weather my guess is somewhere in the 50-70 range.
Yehuda Moon
Attention: Chicago ROS participants -- this ride begins at Daley Plaza and ends at the corner of Damen and Wellington in Lakeview at Hamlin Park. Paulina EL stop (brown line) is nearby as well as several bus options if you don't want to ride back; bike maps will be available too.
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